Companies & suppliers

Metsa Board has opened a new Euro 50m biopower plant at its Kyro mill in Kyrokoski, Finland.

Quad/Graphics has announced a $258.5m (161m) bid for rival direct marketing business Vertis Holdings as the latter filed for Chapter 11 "to facilitate the intended sale".

Stephens & George Print Group (S&G) has secured a two-year, 3m extension to its three-year deal with Haymarket Media Group to produce the publisher's weekly, biweekly and monthly sheetfed titles.

HH Global has appointed Jeffery Tolman, a previous deputy chairman and chief executive, strategy, at Saatchi & Saatchi, as a non-executive director.

Ex-Manroland subsidiary ppi Media has appointed Ian Roberts as its UK and Ireland sales agent.

Recycled packaging supplier DS Smith has said its acquisition of SCA Packaging will deliver a return on investment above its cost of capital in 2012/13, with a 'substantial' earnings enhancement.

Kodak has forecast a total operating cash flow of $33m (20m) on revenue of $1.2bn for the first six months of 2013, although its US operation is forecast to lose $110m in the same period.

Paper manufacturer James Cropper has appointed Phil Wild as chief executive of the company following Alun Lewis' departure after 25 years of service.

Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) has signed an an exclusive distribution contract with Lasermax Roll to bring the Swedish company's inline finishing equipment for continuous feed digital printers...

Xerox has upgraded its Nuvera cut-sheet mono digital press portfolio with the launch of two new devices, the single-engine Nuvera 157EA and the dual-engine perfecting Nuvera 314EA.